SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Union Power and the Christie Effect After decades of expanding political clout, organized labor is finding voters increasingly unreceptive to its high-tax message. By STEVE MALANGA In the midst of the contentious 2009 gubernatorial race in New Jersey, the state’s teachers union took a poll of its own members and found only
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NEWS & OBSERVER By George Will September 12, 2010 WASHINGTON Looking back with pride, the British are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when Churchill said of the pilots fighting the Luftwaffe: Never “was so much owed by so many to so few.” Looking ahead with trepidation, Americas are thinking: Never have
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The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd
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WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the
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AUGUST 31, 2010 TARP and the Continuing Problem of Toxic Assets It was a bold bet that the Treasury and Fed could engineer an economic recovery without allowing the repricing of U.S. housing stock. By ANDY KESSLER We should have eaten those toxic assets instead of sweeping them under the carpet. The Troubled Asset Relief
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NEW YORK TIMES July 29, 2010 G.M.’s Electric Lemon U.S. Taxpayers send $150 million to Volt’s Korean Battery Supplier By EDWARD NIEDERMEYER Portland, Ore. GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go
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AUGUST 23, 2010 How States Hide Their Budget Deficits The SEC’s charges against New Jersey for misleading investors should warn other states against sweeping the truth under the rug. By STEVE MALANGA In April, the New York State Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, issued a damning report on the Empire State’s financial practices. Albany’s budgets, he observed,
AUGUST 24, 2010 Virginia Is for Surpluses Erasing red ink without a tax increase. Here’s something you don’t see often these days: a government running a budget surplus. Governor Robert McDonnell announced last week that Virginia closed fiscal 2010 some $400 million in the black. That’s a radically improved financial picture from a year ago
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Senator Burr Recognized as a Taxpayer Hero Yesterday, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) was recognized as a Taxpayer Hero by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) for his “willingness to stand up for American taxpayers” during the 111th Congress. Senator Burr received a 92 out of 100 percent in CCAGW’s 2009 Congressional Ratings system.
